Risk Officer - Data & Ai jobs at Booking in Netherlands, Amsterdam

A successful candidate should demonstrate:

• Technical knowledge: Solid understanding of enterprise data technology and machine learning at scale

• Risk management: Experience in developing compliance solutions which are resistant against degradation over time, are documented and can be monitored and tested

• Strategic thinking: Ability to think beyond quick wins and perceive long-term opportunities for broad-based risk reduction

• Customer centricity: Keeping the customer's best interests at heart, both in terms of the protection of their privacy as well as the usability of our products and services

• People leadership: Inspiring, coaching and supporting your team members, to allow them to excel and grow

• Cross-functional mindset: Willingness to break through silos, collaborate across teams and departments and pitch in when needed to ensure overall mission success

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Support the business with in-depth legal review, advice and guidance on data protection and data privacy issues and/or risks with any current or potential new initiatives

• Serve as the primary privacy legal SPoC for all matters arising from the Data, Technology and Customer Service functions in the company

• Lead a team that serves as the foremost experts in the privacy legal function when it comes to data governance and technology

• Lead the retention & deletion efforts at Booking.com

• Support strategic, enterprise-wide priorities to mature our data governance and privacy control landscape

• Engage with other Legal & Public Affairs teams and stakeholders to ensure the Legal function speaks with one voice

• Constantly (re)prioritize team workload to adapt to changing circumstances

• Partnering on review, advice and approval of data sharing use cases, data protection and privacy guidance, policies and procedures for the business

• Exercise people management responsibilities, such as performance management and coaching; be accountable for team performance

Qualification & Skills:

• Bachelor degree (Master’s Degree / Specialised Diploma is an advantage) and admission to practise in at least one jurisdiction
• 8-12 years experience in a reputable law firm or in-house team

• EU, UK or US law degree

• A Batchelors’ and/or Masters’ Degree, and a legal professional qualification

• Native or fluent English speaking and writing skills

• Knowledge and experience in data protection law; a CIPP/E / CIPT (or similar) certification is preferred

• A deep understanding of GDPR and the e-Privacy Directive how this applies to enterprise and consumer-facing technology; knowledge of DMA/DSA and AI Act is preferred

• Ability to be the “voice of reason” in crisis situations, to quickly respond to issues at hand and to prioritise effectively, with a “customer first” mindset

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral), attention to detail, organizational and project management skills and ability to meet deadlines, prioritising appropriately

• Adaptable, ready to embrace change in order to meet evolving business needs, work in ambiguous situations and under pressure, and learn from mistakes

• Strong ability to lead and inspire a team

• Demonstrated cross-functional project leadership and commercial acumen, with ability to balance risk with business objectives

• Experience in management of and impactful communication with senior stakeholders, effectively communicating complex ideas and projects simply and succinctly

• In-depth understanding of the data and privacy issues that commonly arise in the technology and data space, along with ability to quickly learn and grasp the importance of new and emerging issues and manage processes from inception to completion

• Strong collaborative, professional approach; able to succeed in and lead diverse, multidisciplinary, multicultural teams

• High proficiency in productivity software, and AI platform usage, with a commitment to continuous improvement.

Deadline for applications is21 November 2025.

Further traits look for:

• Alignment with Booking.com’s values (Customer First, Succeed Together, Own It, Learn Forever, Do the Right Thing).

• Curiosity, flexibility, and a creative, pragmatic approach to problem-solving.

• Confidence with collaboration.

• Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

• Proactivity, resilience, and a drive to deliver results.

• Strong judgment with attention to both the big picture and key details.

• Courage to take a stance and make tough decisions.

• Team-oriented, self-aware, and a good listener.

• Agility in prioritizing and meeting deadlines.

• Forward-thinking, with a focus on emerging legal and policy issues.

As a team, we believe in:

• Being integral to decision-making, shaping Booking.com’s future.

• Supporting Booking's mission to make travel accessible, fostering openness and curiosity.

• Offering opportunities for team members to explore new areas or specialize.

• Providing holistic, integrated legal and public affairs advice.

• Continuously improving Legal Operations, innovating, and sharing best practices.

• Learning from mistakes and embracing growth.

• Working collaboratively with a sense of humor and enjoying the journey together!

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave

• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)

• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

Application process:

• Let’s go places together:

• Detailed instructions on post-application requirements including any required application materials, deadlines, portfolios, coding challenges, or other assessments as defined by BU or department.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

Key Responsibilities

• Business Acumen:
• Maintain a fundamental understanding of the Booking.com business, industry news and risk best practices and apply that knowledge in the context of your core areas of responsibility.
• Critical Thinking:
• Identify and design solutions in a wide range of situations, and proactively propose concrete improvement plans.
• Objective Setting, Prioritization & Task Management:
• Independently structure and execute work, decide on priority areas and output fitting the overarching objectives and priorities. Deliver in line within agreed timelines and escalate issues to the appropriate level and roles within the organization where needed.
• Attention to Detail:
• Produce high quality, accurate output across a broad range of topics, with limited review and oversight required.
• Result Orientation:
• Work independently and proactively to deliver the right results for specific objectives and deliverables in line with personal and company values whilst influencing stakeholders in order to meet timelines and prioritize critical activities.
• Effective Communication & Presentation Skills:
• Effectively and clearly communicate and present information relating to core responsibilities, tailor messages and explain (technical) concepts to stakeholders.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions.
• Organize and run larger meetings in a clear, structured and outcome-oriented manner.
• Stakeholder Management & Influencing:
• Independently identify, develop and grow relationships with key stakeholders to build and maintain a wide network within the coverage area, mostly at mid-level but also including key senior stakeholders for a bilateral flow of information.
• Align with stakeholders on impact beyond their team, respectfully challenging and influencing others to assume appropriate roles and responsibilities by adopting stakeholder management and influencing techniques.
• Confidently and independently navigate tricky discussions, incorporating Manager input around escalations, approach or blockers where needed.
• People Management:
• Provide constructive feedback to peers and incorporate received feedback into personal development goals.
• May provide mentoring and task oversight to more junior staff or external consultants.
• Support hiring process.
• Operational & Technical Expertise:
• Apply a comprehensive understanding to processes, systems and/or products within your coverage area.
• Display general understanding of the impact on the wider process and/or system landscape.
• Seek manager input for in-depth expertise.
• Risk Landscape Awareness:
• Maintain awareness or knowledge of the broader internal risk landscape across one or more business areas as well as external developments.
• Adopt a business need centric and user friendly approach to influence business stakeholders to take informed decisions in line with the risk capacity, risk appetite and risk tolerance of Booking.com.
• Risk & Governance Advisory:
• Provide input to the development of methodologies throughout the risk management lifecycle.
• Advice stakeholders in ongoing risk and compliance work within your dedicated area(s).
• Risk Identification & Assessment:
• Identify and appropriately assess risks in line with the team's frameworks and methodologies.
• Document risk assessment outcomes, including clear description of the risk, perceived level of risk and considerations for risk treatment, tailored to the topic at hand, with limited guidance and review required.
• Risk Treatment:
• Independently support control design and/or assurance activities and work with control owners to prepare controls for approval.
• Coordinate audit activities including support to close any control deficiencies identified.
• Work across teams/projects/BUs and ensure risks are appropriately mitigated.
• Develop, select and implement risk treatment strategies, proposing alternative risk treatment options where needed.

Communication.Stakeholder

• Process/Control owners (combination of directors, managers, team leaders and individual contributors)
• Subject Matters Experts (SME's) e.g. Finance, Fintech, Fraud, Legal, Security, etc.
• Other Internal stakeholders in Accommodations (i.a. CS, PS, Product), Trips, Finance, FinTech, Legal, Marketing, People, Strategy and Corporate Development and Technology (i.a. Security, Infrastructure)
• Internal & External Audit
• Risk & Control team

Communication.Type

• Persuasion / CooperationPartner with business stakeholders by: providing guidance and support in ongoing compliance;providing guidance and support in identifying risks and control gaps and, designing and implementing appropriate controls;providing clear instructions on expected stakeholder contributions and ensure follow up;facilitating and participating in cross functional groups for activities related to the risk management lifecycle;presenting and advising on standardized methodologies, processes and documentation;maintaining a business centric approach.
• Information and CooperationInform SMEs on:risk areas in need of SME input;control design and implementation;work closely together to share knowledge and experience.
• CooperationWork closely together to share knowledge and experience.
• Cooperation Support Internal and External audit teams to ensure that remediation plans are implemented on a timely basis for any deficiencies foundSupport SOX, PCI and other audit cycles
• Information and CooperationWork closely together to share knowledge and experience.

Communication.Frequency

• Continuous
• Continuous
• Continuous
• Continuous
• Continuous

Level of Education.Level of Education

• Bachelor degree
• Master degree

Level of Education.Description

• Alternatively compensating years of experience (3 to 5 years in addition to below)
• Preferred

Years of relevant Job Knowledge.Years of relevant Job Knowledge

• Advanced Knowledge (5 - 8 years)

Requirements of special knowledge/skills

• Qualities / Soft Skills:
• Enthusiastic, self-starting and flexible work attitude
• Ability to effectively prioritize and manage workload, work under pressure and deliver on timelines
• Handle multiple tasks, of varying and often complex content, generally at the same/similar time
• Have the ability to split large tasks into logical, manageable and decoupled actions which are managed effectively and delivered on time
• Strongly process, problem solving and action oriented
• Curious and proactive in the assessment and challenge of risks
• Strong team player
• Advanced communication skills and ability to actively listen
• Strong relationship building skills
• High level of integrity, confidentiality & professionalism
• Requirements of special knowledge/ Hard Skills:
• Advanced (technical) understanding of and experience with Risk Management, Compliance, Internal controls , control procedures, automation, monitoring, testing, collecting evidence and remediation activities
• Experience with large e-commerce or tech companies is advantageous
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken
• CISSP, CRISC, CISM, CISA, or similar certification is advantageous
• Project management skills
• Stakeholder management skills
• For Business Officer functions:
• Advanced understanding of and experience with risk management relevant fields, for example but not limited to:
• Business analysis
• Auditing
• Corporate governance
• Finance concepts and processes
• SOx integration
• AML/ CFT framework, GDPR, PCI, SOx
• Fundamental understanding of below IT expertise fields.
• For IT Officer functions:
• Advanced understanding of and experience with risk management relevant fields, for example but not limited to:
• IT Risk management and IT Governance
• IT Security concepts and processes
• (IT) Frameworks like ITGC, COSO, NIST
• DevOps tools like Puppet, Jenkins, Git, Docker, or Kubernetes
• JIRA
• Fundamental understanding of above Business expertise fields.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

• Assist in the development and leading of regular security training/awareness programs to train and educate risk owners and the broader organization on internal controls and security topics.
• Co-Lead/ support the processes of maturity assessments (cyber, fraud, T&S) and recommendations follow up
• Coordinate the follow up of audit and internal assessment security issues; Monitor and report the status of remediation plans; assess remediation progress and challenge management on the selected approach and prioritization.
• Co-Lead/ support the process of SS&F risk register update including the maintenance of the SS&F risk definition
• Support the IT policy lifecycle management including the design, implementation and adoption of policies, standards and guidelines in the areas of SS&F.
• Manage security exceptions to IT policies and standards.
• Stay flexible to meet the dynamic business needs, while maintaining robust solutions that strengthen the control environment.

• Bachelor’s degree required in technology, computer science or a related field
• CISA, CISSP, CISM, CEH, CIPP/E or related certification.
• 5-7 years work experience in business analysis, information security processes, auditing, corporate governance, risk management, internal controls, security awareness programs.
• Ability to develop solid relationships with business partners in order to drive the adoption of the risk management culture.
• Strong program management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Thorough technical understanding of SS&F internal control requirements and design and experience in applying them in various businesses.
• Able to split large tasks into logical, manageable and decoupled actions which are managed effectively and delivered on time.
• Be flexible and agile in response to the change in business, change in stakeholder expectations and/or change in regulatory/operating environment of .
• Good understanding of IT Control and cybersecurity Frameworks, such as COBIT; ISO 27001 and NIST CSF / SP 800-53.
• Strong independent contributor, while still a strong team player

Total Reward Philosophy:

• The benefits and perks offered by the company can be .

Career Development Opportunities:

• Learn more about here.

• and benefit from a mentoring relationship with a more experienced person to help you identify and achieve your professional and personal development goals.

• personalized one-to-one coaching with our internal coaches.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Provide privacy legal reviews of new AI initiatives in a speedy and practical way

• Draft and maintain our AI Privacy Legal Playbook and associated processes, to ensure scalable and consistent reviews of AI initiatives

• Provide privacy legal support for our tracking tech and consent compliance programs

• Support our Genius benefits program with privacy legal reviews of new features

• Independently execute your work, collaborate with stakeholders and identify opportunities for improvement

Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years' experience in a top tier law firm and/or major corporation in a similar role;

• Hands-on experience in data protection, AI governance, privacy compliance;

• Solid understanding of AI, consumer-facing tech products and enterprise technology;

• A Bachelors' and/or Masters' Degree, and a legal professional qualification; a CIPP/E / CIPT (or similar) certification is preferred;

• A deep understanding of GDPR, familiarity with the AI Act and how these apply to travel tech;

• A high level of project management skill and able to "roll up sleeves" to get the job done;

• Ability to be the 'voice of reason' in tense situations - The ability to quickly respond to issues at hand and able to prioritise effectively, with a 'customer first' mindset;

• Fluency in English (and 'tech') with excellent communication skills; verbally, in writing and listening

Further traits look for:

• Alignment with Booking.com’s values (Customer First, Succeed Together, Own It, Learn Forever, Do the Right Thing).

• Curiosity, flexibility, and a creative, pragmatic approach to problem-solving.

• Confidence with collaboration.

• Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

• Proactivity, resilience, and a drive to deliver results.

• Strong judgment with attention to both the big picture and key details.

• Courage to take a stance and make tough decisions.

• Team-oriented, self-aware, and a good listener.

• Agility in prioritizing and meeting deadlines.

• Forward-thinking, with a focus on emerging legal and policy issues.

As a team, we believe in:

• Being integral to decision-making, shaping Booking.com’s future.

• Supporting Booking's mission to make travel accessible, fostering openness and curiosity.

• Offering opportunities for team members to explore new areas or specialize.

• Providing holistic, integrated legal and public affairs advice.

• Continuously improving Legal Operations, innovating, and sharing best practices.

• Learning from mistakes and embracing growth.

• Working collaboratively with a sense of humor and enjoying the journey together!

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave

• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)

• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

Application Process:

• Let’s go places together:

• Detailed instructions on post-application requirements including any required application materials, deadlines, portfolios, coding challenges, or other assessments as defined by BU or department.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

Role Description:

You will play a key role to discover causal relationships in a wide variety of travel products and customers, challenge hidden assumptions and validate the robustness of conclusions to enable confident decisions at scale with real business actions.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Responsible for fully owning the design and delivery of causal solutions based on business requirements, from idea-generation, validation, implementation to stakeholder communication. Deliver customer value with the right solutions.

• Keep a sharp eye on both the strengths and limitations of applied methodologies in real use cases. Proactively explore and research advanced statistical and causal techniques suitable for the business applications, and guide junior members as a force multiplier.

• Identify and manage stakeholders independently. Autonomously translate business challenges into proper data stories and solutions. Capable of communicating complex solutions to business stakeholders and craft peers beyond the team’s scope with in-time updates, clear visualization, accessible documentation and effective verbal language.

• Responsible for interpreting quantitative experiments and causal models to objectively guide key business decisions. Grow technical competency and spot opportunities to adopt more efficient approaches. Break down complex problems into tangible milestones to drive continuous improvements and actionable outcomes on product or strategy.

• Identify trends and behaviors from data to uncover hidden causal insights across business domains. Unlock the value of causal inference by bringing together end-to-end solutions. Learn to incorporate scalability, reproducibility and long-term orientation in the work. Embed causal techniques into the bigger picture for business takeaways and recommendations.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Experience working with dynamic project setup, multiple teams and stakeholders to align expectations and collaboration. Turning open-ended questions into clear milestones and agreed deliverables.

• Passionate in driving innovation for real applications with curious, humble and can-do attitudes.

• Proven ability to unpack real world causal questions, design modeling or experimentation solutions, and provide clear and actionable business recommendations with real influence.

• Experience to research and compare new methods and validate feasibility with real data. Clearly explain the reasoning behind technical choices, and open to peer review and discussions.

• Able to zoom in and out in problem solving. Willing to dig deep for exploration, and summarize reusable learnings and methodologies for scalable exploitation.

• Excellent communication skills for diverse audiences. Able to discuss complex technical problems in an accessible, business-friendly manner at all phases of the project.

• Proficient in handling large amounts of data and using causal model packages with Python, Snowpark, or R. Familiar with using causal packages. Produce well structured, readable and reproducible high quality code.

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave

• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)

• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

Application Process:

This section should provide:

• Let’s go places together:

• This role does not come with relocation assistance.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

About the team:The Data & AI Governance department enables extending the governance theme of policies, standards, processes and technology for governing data and AI, to driving excellence in our approach for leveraging secure, trusted, accessible data for data driven decision making through:

• An overarching Data & AI Policy to include associated standards

• Data & AI Governance capabilities

• Data Access and Usage Control, in compliance with regulatory requirements

• Data & AI Delivery Governance

• Data & AI Observability and Quality

The Senior AI Governance Specialist is an expert in AI and Observability, and will be responsible for the definition and maintenance of the AI Governance standards and relative guidelines and playbooks, including the oversight of tooling and processes, and will drive the corresponding best practice across the company. Most specifically, the role oversees that AI systems are developed, deployed, and maintained responsibly, ethically, and in line with regulations and with a risk mitigation approach. This role blends Data and AI technical understanding with policy, ethics, and risk management. The new joiner will have autonomy over the delivery of their work, including requirements gathering, contribution to the solution design, overseeing tooling selection, implementation, integration, roll-out and adoption across business units in a collaborative manner.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Develop AI governance frameworks, including AI Governance standards and playbooks, aligned with organizational values and global norms

• Gather, analyse and manage requirements, coming from various stakeholders (e.g., Risk and Control, Compliance, Legal and Business Units)

• Contribute to the design and implementation of AI Governance related tools

• Ensure impact and risk assessments are timely and shared with Leadership to enable effective risk mitigation (e.g., EU AI ACT Risk Assessment, Data Protection Impact Assessment)

• Contribute to the creation and maintaining of risk registers for AI use cases

• Contribute to the KPIs and adoption metrics, for the AI Governance standards across Booking.com, unlocking innovation and business value through leveraging data and AI.

Qualifications and Skills:

• 5+ years’ experience in AI, with a strong understanding of AI/ML technologies (not necessarily coding, but grasping how models work, are trained, mitigate for bias, drift etc.)

• Knowledge of data lifecycle (collection, storage, processing, deletion)

• Familiarity with AI-related regulations (e.g., EU AI Act, GDPR, US AI Bill of Rights)

• Ability to apply ethical and risk management frameworks to AI use cases

• Knowledge of human rights impacts of AI

• Understanding of fairness, accountability, transparency, and explainability (FATE)

• Strong analytical capabilities to assess complex technical and ethical risks.

• Familiarity with AI quality and observability, including architecture and key metrics

• Experience in conducting impact and risk assessments (e.g., EU AI ACT risk Assessment, Data Protection Impact Assessment)

• Experience in working with data scientists, legal teams, compliance, IT, cybersecurity, product owners and other stakeholders

• Collaborate and design effective training programmes to foster a culture of ethics and governance in AI use cases

• Excellent communication skills to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences and build effective relationships across departments.

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave

• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)

• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

• Living and working in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide

• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture

• Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit

• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions

• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation

• Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working in the home city of Booking.com

Application Process:

This section should provide:

• Let’s go places together:

• This role does not come with relocation assistance.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

Role Description:

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll collaborate with top-notch engineers and data scientists to elevate our platform to the next level and deliver exceptional user experiences. Your primary focus will be on the data engineering aspects—ensuring the seamless flow of high-quality, relevant data to train and optimize content models, including GenAI foundation models, supervised fine-tuning, and more.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance data pipelines.

• Dealing with massive textual sources to train GenAI foundation models.

• Solving issues with data and data pipelines, prioritizing based on customer impact.

• End-to-end ownership of data quality in our core datasets and data pipelines.

• Experimenting with new tools and technologies to meet business requirements regarding performance, scaling, and data quality.

• Providing tools that improve Data Quality company-wide, specifically for ML scientists.

• Providing self-organizing tools that help the analytics community discover data, assess quality, explore usage, and find peers with relevant expertise.

• Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions

• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences, and active community participation

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams: Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and analysts to understand business requirements and translate them into machine learning solutions. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.

• Minimum of 6 years of experience as a Data Engineer or a similar role, with a consistent record of successfully delivering ML/Data solutions.

• You have built production data pipelines in the cloud, setting up data-lake and server-less solutions; ‌ you have hands-on experience with schema design and data modeling and working with ML scientists and ML engineers to provide production level ML solutions.

• You have experience designing systems E2E and knowledge of basic concepts (lb, db, caching, NoSQL, etc)

• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python and Java.

• Experience with big data processing frameworks such, Pyspark, Apache Flink, Snowflake or similar frameworks.

• Demonstrable experience with MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB or similar relational/NoSQL database systems.

• Experience with Data Warehousing and ETL/ELT pipelines

• Experience in data processing for large-scale language models like GPT, BERT, or similar architectures - an advantage.

• Proficiency in data manipulation, analysis, and visualization using tools like NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib - an advantage.

• Experience with experimental design, A/B testing, and evaluation metrics for ML models - an advantage.

• Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base - an advantage.

• Excellent communication in English; written and spoken.

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave

• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)

• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

Application Process:

• Let’s go places together:

• This role does not come with relocation assistance.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.